Senior Java Backend Developer

Description

Position Summary

We are currently seeking a motivated, career and customer oriented Java Backend Developer to join our team to begin an exciting and challenging career in Ashburn, VA.

Job Responsibilities

• Working closely with the tech lead and senior developers, the Mid-Level Java Developer will participate in the system architecture design, systems engineering, development, integration testing and validation, and all aspects of the software life-cycle (requirements to design to implementation to test) for a java backend application involving extensive messaging and transaction processing

• Design and implement Micro Service Architecture for Cloud based software applications.

• Use modern software engineering tools including Eclipse, Jira, and Atlassian Suites for design, development, and testing the software

• Present the solution at formal and informal design reviews, and document the design according to the Government's system lifecycle methodology

Required Skills and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related engineering field with 9+ years of technical experience

• 9+ years of strong Java design and software development experience including designing, developing, and documenting large-scale enterprise software systems

• Ability to diagnose problems and support production systems

• 2+ years of working with Applications on Cloud utilizing serverless hosted services like AWS S3, DynanoDB, lambda etc

• Java Micro Service Architecture frameworks such as Spring Boot

• Experience with container platforms like Docker and Kubernetes

• SQL DBs (preferably Oracle) and strong SQL/JDBC skills is required for this position.

• Experience with NoSQL DBs like MongoDB, Document DB, Cassandra etc.

• Messaging and Streaming Systems (Kafka, SQS ans Kinesis)

• XML/JSON

• Unix/Linux

• Experince with JPA/Hibernate

• Experience with building RESTful webservices and experience with query language based APIs like GraphQL.

• Jenkins, Maven, Gitlab and Jira for CI/CD

• Demonstrated expertise in software engineering practices (e.g., reading/generating software specs, design patterns, continuous integration)

• Demonstrated ability to incorporate rigorous Unit testing as part of development activities is essential

Qualifications

Desired Skills and Experience

• First-hand experience working with large project teams (working with the Federal Government a strong plus)

• Demonstrated ability to think critically and creatively to develop innovative solutions to software problems.

• Ability to develop and maintain components with stringent performance requirements.

• Agile development experience a plus

• IBM MQ , JMS, EJB, MDB and other JEE technologies

• JEE Server experience (WebLogic\WebSphere\JBOSS\etc.)

Customer Requirements

• Clearance - Ability to obtain and hold a public trust position and favorable suitability based on a CBP Background Investigation

• Citizenship - Must be a US Citizen

• Location - Hybrid with on-site (Ashburn, VA) visits 1-2 days per week and if a mission need. All candidates must be within the GWA/commutable area

SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.

Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site.